What are you waiting for?

Are you living your life in limbo? Are you waiting for something to happen, at some unidentified time in the future to make a difference to the way your life turns out?

Do you feel that they don’t have to get a decent education, or get a job because sooner or later you are going to inherit the family fortune? Of course you may never admit to anyone that you are waiting for a relative to die, so you can inherit money, but it is obvious to everyone else that is what you are doing.

However, there is a second, much larger group of people who are living their lives in limbo. Every time you decide to do a little less than you could or should you are wasting your lives. Every time you utter the words, “I’ll do that when the kids leave home”, or “when I retire, I’ll do….” “I’ll go on the diet once we’ve eaten all the bad things in the fridge”. Every time you buy a lottery ticket and watch the numbers come through the chute with your fingers crossed, then you too are waiting for someone/something outside of your control to come to your rescue.

If you are waiting for some outside force to drag you out of the procrastination habit you find yourself living in, then you will be waiting a very long time. Aunt Doris may decide to leave the family fortune to the cat’s home because she is sick and tired of the infighting and the bickering about who gets what bit of jewelry and furniture when she’s died. And statistically speaking you are more likely to get run over by a car on the way to buy your lottery ticket than you are to actually win it.

The only person who can make a long-term difference to the way your life turns out is you. You and only you are responsible for the food that you put into your mouth, the amount of exercise and effort that you put into the activity that you have chosen to do, the amount of money that you earn, whether your business works or doesn’t. It is entirely up to you and the amount of energy you are willing to put into living your life.

Life is not a spectator sport; you actually have to contribute time and energy. And more often than not, sometimes the returns don’t come to you in one big lump sum.

You can make a million, but it may take several years of careful budgeting, moving house a couple of times, trading stocks and shares or building your business in order to get there. Or take the exercise discipline, if you are overweight, then consider how long it has taken you to reach your current unfitness levels and then once you have made the commitment to reduce your reliance on food stuff to fill whatever hole you are trying to eat your way through, then you need to consider that if it has taken you x number of years to reach this point, how on earth can you expect to lose all the excess weight in five minutes….and keep it off. Long-term change takes time and takes a concerted effort and commitment before you get very much in return. What kind of effort are you willing to put into living your life? Or are you still content to wait for things outside of your control to make the difference?

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